Within the first 24 hours of racist, sexist, proto-fascist Donald Trump's Presidency, the largest protests in US history erupted all over the country. In Washington D.C., thousands turned out to protest the inauguration, and unfathomable hundreds of thousands attended the Women's March on Washington the next day (as well as millions more all over the nation). Chicago teacher Michelle Gunderson says 500,000 in D.C. would be a conservative estimate (our Labor Beat reporter Andrew Friend, who could barely move while there, agrees!).

From Day One covers and analyzes these protests in the context of a new national resistance to austerity and attacks on minority and union rights. The old liberal pitfalls of electioneering for the Democratic Party, corporate feminism, and being out of touch with the intersections of gender, race, and class seem to hold less sway than before as millions analyze the way the DNC treated supporters of Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders and delivered the nation to Trump. And they are moving leftward.

Labor activists also comment on the dangers of the Right's anti-union agenda and how we can most effectively fight back as solidarity and rebellion sweeps the a nation steeped in the experiences of Occupy Wall Street, Black lives Matter, and Standing Rock. Length 27:58.